EXCLUSIVE: First Look at EA Sports FC 26 The World's Game Update

With the World Cup conscionable weeks away, IGN tin uncover The World’s Game update for EA Sports FC 26 and EA Sports FC Mobile with exclusive screenshots and details.

The World’s Game Update, owed retired May 28, lets players pb a federation successful a caller 48-team planetary tourney mode starting June 4. EA Sports doesn’t person the authoritative licence for the FIFA World Cup itself (EA Sports’ FIFA bid switched to EA Sports FC for the 2023 entry), but the caller update features 53 afloat licensed and playable nationalist teams, 41 of which are competing successful the existent World Cup.

Fully licensed and playable nationalist teams see Brazil, England, France, Cabo Verde, and Uzbekistan. New stadiums see Gillette Stadium and BMO Field, alongside Central Maw, “a caller stadium built to seizure the ambiance of top-tier planetary football.”

The slideshow beneath includes 2 exclusive images, showing disconnected the Mexico and Morocco nationalist teams arsenic they look successful The World’s Game update.

EA Sports said the World’s Game features 2 non-licensed teams with authentic players (Egypt, Japan), and 5 non-licensed generic squads (Algeria, Curaçao, Iran, Iraq, Jordan). “National squad inclusion depends connected our quality to unafraid licensing rights straight and comply with applicable laws and regulations, including U.S. sanctions, which whitethorn bounds our quality to spouse with definite federations,” EA Sports explained.

EA Sports FC 26 The World’s Game Update database of afloat licensed nations:

• Argentina
• Australia
• Austria
• Belgium
• Bosnia & Herzegovina**
• Brazil
• Cabo Verde
• Canada
• Colombia
• Congo DR**
• Croatia
• Czech Republic
• Denmark
• Ecuador
• England
• Finland
• France
• Germany
• Ghana
• Haiti
• Holland
• Hungary
• Iceland
• Indonesia
• Italy
• Ivory Coast
• Korea Republic
• Mexico
• Morocco
• New Zealand
• Northern Ireland
• Norway
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Poland
• Portugal
• Qatar
• Republic of Ireland
• Romania
• Saudi Arabia
• Scotland
• Senegal
• South Africa
• Spain
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• Tunisia
• Turkiye
• Ukraine
• United States
• Uruguay
• Uzbekistan
• Wales

**Will diagnostic generic kits arsenic of June 4, updated to see authentic kits successful a aboriginal update.

The standalone 48-team tourney takes you done 3 radical signifier matches, with the apical 2 teams progressing alongside the 8 champion third-placed teams crossed each groups. From there, knockout rounds statesman with the circular of 32 earlier culminating successful the tourney final.

Meanwhile, Ultimate Team gets a dedicated Event Hub, Festival of Football themed campaigns, and more. If you log successful and play FC 26 betwixt June 5 and July 24, you get a 93 OVR Festival of Football ICON Pelé and 3 ‘Choose Your Journey’ Evolutions.

Throughout Festival of Football, EA Sports volition adhd implicit 100 caller planetary players to the FUT excavation of items, arsenic good arsenic 2 marque caller ICONS: Rivellino and Mario Kempes. They’ll debut with peculiar Greats of the Game Versions connected June 19, earlier their Base versions are disposable successful the FUT excavation of items for Packs from June 26.

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